Major General George A. Custer, before Custer’s Last Stand…
Major General George A. Custer, Custer before Custer’s last stand (c. Lawrence E. Walker Foundation Collection)
April 26, 2018
This Day In History
- April 27 – In 1947, “Babe Ruth Day” at Yankee Stadium…
- April 20 – In 1999, two young men stormed into a suburban high school in Littleton, Colo…
- April 21 – In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain…
- April 22 – In 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders…
- April 23 – In 1968, 300 Columbia students barricaded the office of the college dean…
- April 24 – In 1898, Spain declared war on the United States…
- April 25 – In 1945, during World War II, United States and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River…
- April 26 – In 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union…
